You too can contribute to AC+erm!

Would you like to help us in a ‘mass peer-review’ exercise to help validate some of our research findings?

As part of the AC+erm project, we have carried out a systematic literature review (SLR) of journal literature on electronic records management (ERM) published from 1996 to February 2009.

We searched for the topic ‘electronic records management’ in the following databases: LISA, EBSCO, Web of Science. (LISA covers information studies and technology, library science and publishing; EBSCO’s Business Source Premier coverage includes business, management, engineering, law, health and art; Web of Science citation indexes cover 9,000 journals across the sciences, social sciences & the arts and the humanities).

We have reviewed 1,189 from a total of 1,756 items and selected, to date, 536.
Selected outputs from the SLR data have been used to inform the initial questions for our Delphi studies and made available on our project website.

We would welcome feedback on our SLR activity to see if we have adequately identified the relevant literature. We have chosen a subset of the total number of results for validation – this subset comprises journal articles that disseminate the results of case studies and case examples (a total of 104 items).

If you are willing to share your knowledge and expertise, you can do so by downloading a Word document from our website, completing the response fields, and returning it by email to eb.acerm@northumbria.ac.uk. The document contains the full list of 104 articles along with brief descriptions of the cases and can be found at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/slr/

Thank you for your help.

Systematic Literature Review – Sources relating to systems and technology

The Delphi Study investigating the Systems and Technology facet of the project, now in its final stages of completion, was—like the previous two studies—informed by the results of the Systematic Literature Review (SLR).

The details and content summaries of sources from the SLR prepared for the systems and technology Delphi are now available on our website at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/diss/diss_slr/

The document is entitled ‘Interim Analysis Technology Issues 2009.04’ [Link]

The analysis contains synopses of more than 200 sources, grouped under a variety of categories and sub-headings.